Daily Archives: November 29, 2016

During interrogations, KSM said that Bush’s aggressive response to the 9/11 attacks was the opposite of what al-Qaeda expected … and that it saved us from a second wave of attacks.

“Today, some on both the left and the right argue that al-Qaeda wanted to draw us into a quagmire in Afghanistan — and now the Islamic State wants to do the same in Iraq and Syria. KSM said this is dead wrong. Far from trying to draw us in, KSM said that al-Qaeda expected the United States to respond to 9/11 as we had the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut — when, KSM told Mitchell, the United States “turned tail and ran.”

He also said he thought we would treat 9/11 as a law enforcement matter, just as we had the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole in Yemen — arresting some operatives and firing a few missiles into empty tents, but otherwise leaving him free to plan the next attack.

“How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?”

There is much speculation that president-elect Trump may announce more appointments today, perhaps even the one garnering the most speculation, Secretary of State. A number of names have been bandied about. Names like Dana Rohrbacher, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, and the one his base most despises and mistrusts, Willard Mitt Romney. Is he ignoring the voices he’s obviously heard, disapproving most stridently of Mitt, while others think this is nothing more than a head fake to keep people guessing? The bottom line is he’s in charge and will appoint the one he thinks will best represent him to the world. The one certain thing is that whomever he picks the decision will be his and his alone. Unlike past presidents, he doesn’t need everything poll-tested before he decides on a position.

Here’s a List of Who Trump Will Be Meeting With TodayCabinet positions are still open for State, Interior, Commerce, Labor, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, EPA, Agriculture, Treasury, trade representative, administrator of the Small Business Administration, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Office of Management and Budget director.

Trump names anti-Obamacare congressman Tom Price his health secretary, amid rumors he will make General James Mattis defense secretary and Ben Carson HUD secretary today
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Tom Price as health secretary
Price, an orthopedic surgeon, has been outspoken critic of Obamacare
He will likely be pivotal in helping Trump ‘repeal and replace’ the law
Also tapped health consultant firm CEO Seema Verma as administrator of centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Trump is rumored to name other cabinet position nominations Tuesday
Could name Ben Carson secretary of Housing and Urban Development and General James Mattis as defense secretaryPRICE IS A GREAT PICK
BREAKING NEWS: TWO IRANIAN GUNBOATS BUZZED AN AMERICAN WARSHIP, ONE EVEN POINTING A MACHINE GUN AT U.S. HELICOPTERS.
THEY BETTER HAVE FUN NOW, WHILE PRESIDENT PUSSYPANTS IS STILL THERE. WHEN MATTIS IN IN CHARGE, THEY BETTER KNOW HOW TO SWIM BECAUSE THEIR SHIT’S GONNA GET BLOWN UP.

Congressman Warns DHS Against ‘Burrowing’ Obama AppointeesTHIS IS STANDARD DEMOCRAT TACTICS. WHEN A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION TAKES CHARGE, MAKE SURE THEY HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE INSIDE TO DISRUPT OPERATIONS AND FEED INTEL TO THE MEDIA WHORES
With 57 days until the President-elect takes the oath of office, concerns exist that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) non-career positions might be “converted” to career positions,” the letter reads. “Known as ‘burrowing,’ this practice can damage trust with a new Administration and undermine its new priorities. In April 2016, the Chair of my Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee requested quarterly updates from the Under Secretary for Management on such conversions.
McCaul’s suspicions are well-founded, considering he has historical proof. Since 2009, the agency has converted several non-career positions into career ones, including the Assistant Administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Trump, Romney Talks Baffle All: ‘Nobody Has Any Idea’Only two things are clear as President-elect Trump and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meet for the second time on Tuesday: Romney isn’t responding to the increasingly vocal campaign against him, and the final decision is Trump’s.
The dust-up has, not for the first time, created the impression that Trump’s team is in turmoil. But the only two people we haven’t heard from are Romney and Trump.

Rush: It Would Be ‘Impossible’ For Mitt Romney To Apologize and Mean It
“He went out and savaged Trump” Rush says
He adds that, back during the primary, Romney believed that Trump ‘shouldn’t be within a thousand feet of the White House’

It is a fact that when democrats lose, especially in a monumental upset, they vent their anger in most curious ways. Petulant, egotistical, and bitter, they strike out in all directions in an attempt to get what they want, regardless of morals, ethics, or dignity. Now comes huckster Jill Stein. Fourth place finisher behind Trump, Clinton, and Gary Johnson, looking to cash in on the hysteria. She has raised some $7 million to ‘fund’ this Kabuki theater. Most of it will probably end up in her bank account. As long as it’s not taxpayer money, in the words of my grandson, “I’m good with that.”Stringent PA Laws That Protect Democrat Voter Fraud May Stop Hillary from Stealing US ElectionWHEN I WAS A VERY YOUNG BOY, MY GRANDFATHER TOLD ME IF YOU HOLD A SNAKE BY THE TAIL IT WILL TURN AROUND AND BITE YOU.
The problem with Pennsylvania’s recount process though for Stein and Clinton is that according to state law three voters in each precinct or election district in Pennsylvania must submit a notarized affidavit to the clerk in their individual election districts in order to initiate a recount. There are 9,163 precincts in Pennsylvania. As of noon Monday,the Philadelphia city Board of Elections had received petitions for 35 of the 1,686 voting divisions in Philadelphia, according to City Commissioner Al Schmidt. By 5:30 p.m., that number was 74— about 4 percent of the city’s total divisions
The laws in Pennsylvania are so stringent that it makes it nearly impossible to have a recount in the state. Unfortunately for Republicans there have been numerous mentions of fraud over the years in the city of Philadelphia alone. For example in 2012, in 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote.
The Pennsylvania laws prevent a recount in areas like Philadelphia where there is good reason to suspect Democrat fraud. This year these same stringent laws may prevent Hillary from stealing the US election.

Oops! Jill Stein Misses Pennsylvania Recount Deadline – But She Did Raise a Ton of Cash
Green Party candidate raised enough money for a recount of votes in Pennsylvania but she missed the deadline on Monday to file.
It was a nearly impossible task to begin with.
Despite her successful fundraising effort, state law made Jill Stein’s potential Pennsylvania recount next to impossible.
Stein missed the deadline.
Trump won Pennsylvania by over 70,000 votes.
This was all a scam.

Wisconsin Rejects Doing Recount By Hand, Stein To SueThe Wisconsin Elections Commission set a timetable Monday for a recount of the presidential election but rejected a request to conduct it by hand made by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who quickly responded that she would sue.
It will be a race to finish the recount in time to meet a daunting federal deadline, and the lawsuit could delay the process. Under state law, the recount must begin this week as long as Stein or another candidate pays the $3.5 million estimated cost of the recount by Tuesday, election officials said.

Wisconsin Insider on Recount: Expect MASSIVE DNC Voter Fraud to be ExposedThe Wisconsin Elections Commission set a timetable Monday for a recount of the presidential election but rejected a request for a hand recount. The commission is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans. It adopted the recount plans unanimously.
Meanwhile a Wisconsin insider on 4Chan said to expect the recount to expose massive DNC fraud.
The Anonymous “insider” says the recount will reveal people out of state voting, non citizens voting, people voting numerous times, and nursing home violations.
Be ready for Trump to improve his margin of victory

Jill Stein’s recount is a scam — and it also trolls TrumpJill Stein’s cynical push for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan has two obvious goals: to raise more political cash, and to “troll” President-elect Donald Trump. She’s succeeding on both fronts — the interests of the nation be damned.
It’s a pander to liberal hysteria over Trump’s win that will doubtless feed conspiracy theories for years to come. (At least she left Florida out of it this time.)

I just saw this on Facebook and I’m experiencing that “dust in the eyes” thing.

Lost in all the chaos at Ohio State University today was something that most people probably missed.

About an hour into it, when everyone was “sheltering in place” all over campus, CNN took a phone call from a young woman who was locked inside a classroom right near where the suspect was hurting people.

She said she was a graduate student and she and many others were huddled together scared and not sure what was happening outside. Then she said something made me tear up.

She said casually to the TV anchor over the phone, “But we happened to have a few ‘military guys’ in my class and the minute we got the text message alert of an ‘active shooter on campus’ they moved the rest of us away from the door and then all of them stood guard right by the door.”

She said they were standing there as she spoke making certain if a shooter or someone with a knife or whatever calamity tried to come through that door, they would be the first thing he’d see and they’d stop it and protect the other students or die trying.

These guys weren’t armed, I’m guessing they weren’t in uniform, they were just students who happened to have military training. Those “military guys” instantly put themselves on the clock and assumed the position to protect those unarmed, vulnerable students.

I thought that was impressive. I thought that was brave. I thought that was oh so very American.

I also thought you’d want to know.

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My daughter was in class at OSU today also she too had a military/trained SWAT officer in her class and he did the same thing!!! Prayers for all of these brave people who were willing to risk THEIR lives so OUR children would be safe!!!

Yesterday, I saw a snotty comment on a Tea Party site about how Pope Francis allegedly heads an organization that does nothing more than molest children and teach people to talk to imaginary friends.

I dunno if the poster was a Christian or not, but it hardly seems to matter. I’ve seen the same trash spewed by people who are devout followers of Jesus Christ, people who I am fairly certain believe in Jesus’ teachings about charity and truth telling.

I’m also fairly certain that such people know that the Left hates Christians and that their politicians, journalists and educators lie about us a lot. So, when it comes to climate or fracking or any of a host of other hot button issues, they are rightfully skeptical.

But when it comes to trash talked about me and my fellow Catholic Christians, many Bible Thumpers seem to just open up their gullible mouths and swallow whole.

FACT: The incidence of molestation of children by men in the U.S. is between 1% and 5%. The incidence of priest molestation is .1%. Not one percent. POINT one percent. Children are safer with priests than with teachers, coaches, or dads BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE.

FACT: The Inquisition didn’t kill millions. For one thing, there were not millions to kill. Southern Europe didn’t have that many people in it at that time. Best historical estimates put the number of executions in the low thousands and these were spread out over several centuries. Shall we talk about how many people Protestants and Muslims have executed out of religious zeal?

I could go on, but there are loads of books and websites that debunk anti-Catholic lies.

If you’re one of these people who loves Jesus, but thinks Catholics are eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil … do yourself a favor. Not me, YOU. Because Jesus is going to judge you on this stuff.

Do some research! Read something that Catholics have written about what Catholics believe. Please.

A couple of good sites are Catholic dot com, EWTN dot com, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is online, searchable and free @ ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/catechism/index.html.

“[To the Church in Laodicea] “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”